Of course, you may also buy other texts, if you have the means, and
you are encouraged to read other books if you have the time.
In my opinion, Jackson is a great reference. It is a classic
treatise on the subject. But I think it is not the best
textbook for students. In any case, we hope to cover material
taken mostly from the second half of Jackson.Graded
homework problems:These will be due about one or
two weeks after being assigned in lecture.

Reading assignments: Ideally, you should try to do all the exercises in the
assigned Jackson chapters! But I will only collect
for grading those homework problems listed above.

Assignment #1:
For fun
and profit: Get the old E&M qualifier exams and
solve them!

Assignment #2:
Read
Jackson Chapters 6 & 9.

Assignment #3:
For a
better appreciation of gauge transformations, readthis
and perhaps alsothis.

Assignment
#4: Electromagnetic
momentum in a
medium, and the
controversyabout
it, is
discussed at length here.
"Hidden" mechanical momentum is discussed here, but the subject is
also not without controversy(see here
and references therein).

Assignment
#5: Read Jackson Chapters 11 & 14. (Mind
the units!)

Assignment
#6: Read Jackson Chapter 16. (Again, mind the
units!)

Assignment
#7: Jackson discusses Hertz potentials very briefly
in Chapter 6, Section 13. A thorough but accessible
modern treatment that invokes concepts from differential
geometry may be found here.

Assignment
#8: Read Jackson Chapter 10.

Assignment
#9: Read about the first experiment to detect cyclotron
radiation from a single electron, as described here.